People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1896 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

I I ii A i F ll r - 1 : r AF 1 f ffl - a t 1 Wil' wMl—Mai B.Ma.'w, w ' • | J t John Bull: ~ Get off the planet, you hold fraud. You were 8 g conceived in a blunder and your existence is a reproach to the W ? money-power of the world. Get hout! - JRothschilds:2jGei away wit you! Der is no God but Mammon, <C £ and John and me are his prophets. Here, take'your ‘‘Teclara- 9 » tion of Independence mit you. All a lot of lies.”

' ’ ' • - ; * ; I Extract from American People’s Money. J had ceased to touch the conduct, and flowed on in an J increasing volume of insincere and unreal speech; '* * “ ‘The Romans ceased to believe, and in losing their ! faith they became as steel becomes when it is demag- j netized, the spiritual quality was gone out of them, ( and the high society of Rome itself became a society J of powerful animals with an enormous appetite for pleasure. Wealth poured in more and more, and lux- ! iiry grew more unbounded. Palaces sprang up in the 1 city, castles in the country, villas at pleasant places i by the sea, and parks and fish ponds, and game pre- ‘ serves and gardens, and vast retinues of servants. When natural pleasures had been indulged in to sati- ' ety, pleasures which were against nature were im- < ported from the Easlj to stimulate the exhausted J appetite. To makq money—money by any means, lawful or unlawful—became the universal passion. * * “ ‘Moral habits are all sufficient while they last; but ’ with rude, strong natures they are but chains which < hold the passions/prisoners. Let the chain break, and the released brute is, but the more powerful for evil from the force which his constitution was inherited. ( Money! Theory was still Money!. Money was the one thought from-the highest senator to the poorest ! wretch who sold his vote in the Comita. For money < judges gave unjust decrees and juries gave corrupt ( verdicts. Governors held their provinces for one, two ] or three years; they went out bankrupt from extrav- i agance, they returned with millions for fresh riot. To J obtain a province was the first ambition of a Roman I noble. The road to it lay through the praetorship and J the consulship; these offices became, therefore, the ■ • prizes of the State, and being in the gift of the people • they were sought after by means which demoralized J alike the givers and the receivers. The elections I were managed by clubs ond coteries, and, except on J occasions of national danger or political excitement * those who spent most freely were most certain of sue- - cess.’ < « *

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